We have a very similar timeline there. My paternal grandparents both arrived in the U.S. in the 1880s as children, my father was born in 1905, and I was born in 1955.
I’m not sure when my maternal grandfather was born. I think I could find out, but it would take some looking. My maternal grandmother was born in 1893, and my mother in 1920.
Maternal Grandmother 1884 and lived with us from the time I was born until after I had moved out and on. All my other grandparents were born earlier oldest 1872) but died before I came along.
And she’s out dancing every night; she’s a feisty old gal.
My parents were both born in 1911 so my grandparents would have been born in the 19th century but I have no idea when.
A tangent, perhaps completely off topic. My father’s oldest brother was born when my grandmother was 14 years old. Were this to happen today would they have locked up my grandfather?
On my dad’s side:
I was born in 1981.
Da was born in 1941.
Granda was born in 1889.
On my mothers:
Ma was born in 1947.
Granda was born in 1899.
As an aside, my 4 year old niece has 3 living grand parents, and 3 great grandparents, one of whom fought in WWII in the Wehrmacht!
I’m another of the older Dopers, born in 1941. My father’s parents were born in 1882 & 1888 and he in 1914; my mother’s in 1867 & 1878 and she in 1911. My mgf died when I was two, so I have no memories of him, and my pgf in 1959; my father’s mother lived to be 90, and my mother’s lived three weeks short of 108 years.
Grandma A. lived independently (with other relatives and, later, me nearby) until she was 101, after which she stayed with my mother 4 years until needing to be in a nursing home. If the staff hadn’t let her fall and hit her head, we wonder how much longer she might have gone on. I always loved the Little House books and recall being surprised to notice Gran was only ten years younger than Laura Ingalls Wilder, but what a different life. (And about the same time was impressed to realize that her own grandparents, and her husband’s, were born in the late 1790’s: wow, 2 centuries before!)
I once asked her what was the most amazing thing she’d seen in her life, and she said, “The automobile. Once they could make that, why, people could do almost anything.” My mother, who died at 96, shared memories of growing up in their small farming community and about when the family got electricity, the telephone & their first car, as well as telling us what it was like to ride over the fields in a one-horse open sleigh. We used to jingle in the New Year by shaking those melodious old sleigh-bells. She was most impressed, I think with the advances in science and medicine, particularly the vaccines which took away the dread of childhood diseases.
Interestingly, I mentioned this thread to a friend while we were having dinner this evening. He’s 8 years older than I, the youngest child in his family, and his father was contemporaneous with my grandparents, having been born in 1886.
Both my father’s parents were born in 1890 in Russia. My maternal grandmother was born in 1891, here. I don’t have the doc for my maternal grandfather, but I believe he was born in 1888 or 1889, also in Russia.
I am 58, my father was born in 1896 and his father in 1863. My father commanded a gun battery in WW1.
I have a toddler son born in 2010 so he, naturally, has a Victorian, 19th C grandad!
So your Dad was 58 when he sired you and you were just a little younger when you fathered your son… late shagging must run in the family. 
All four of my grandparents were born in the 19th century. They’re all dead now, of course. My paternal grandfather died when my fath4er was very young, in fact.
It might make for a fun spinoff thread, but I’ll just ask here since we’re on the subject. Two things:
And I’m not sure the simplest way to phrase this, but my youngest grand-daughter was born in 1999. At that time I mentioned to those present for her birth that she had a reasonable chance to make it to her third century (by the calendar anyway). Who among us has relatives who did such a thing or have a good chance of doing it in the future?
My guess would be that many of us would have to rely on well-kept family records or on one or more of the genealogy websites or services. Has anyone had good luck with the reliability of such sites?
My Grandparents on my Father’s side: 1890 and 1892. My Dad, also mentioned on that page, was born in 1929.
Paternal grandfather 1881.
Paternal grandmother 1895.
Maternal grandfather 1894.
Maternal grandmother 1897.
Dad was 45 when I was born. Grandpa was 41 when Dad was born. Maybe there is hope for me yet.
I’d probably take both. I’m 29. My dad was in his 60s when my folks had me; he retired one year after I was born. I remember telling people when I was young that my father was retired, and they’d assume I was rich or something. Nope! Dad’s just old.
All of my grandparents were born in the 1800s. The only one I know the exact date for was born in 1885, my paternal grandmother.
Dude I thought you were older than me, no offence. I had a friend in high school whose dad must have been born around the same time as yours as he fought in world war II. Everyone thought the dad was the grandad.
My grandparents were born between 1873 and 1888. Both my grandfathers died around 1920, and both my grandmothers lived to be 90ish, meaning that they were widows for most of their adult lives.
Referring to myself as a mean old lady tends to make people think I’m, you know, old. My whole life people have thought my pa was my grandpa too. When speaking to someone who doesn’t know him, if I ever say my father was in a war, they assume Korea or Vietnam. Nope. WWII.
All of my grandparents were born in the 1870s and 1880s. My parents were born in 1913.
I think there is some overlap between this thread and the one where I asked what the earliest birthday of anyone you met was – a lot of the time, it was the b-day of a grandparent.
Two of my grandparents were born in the 1890s – I reflect that my grandmother (1897) was a contemporary of the very oldest people still living although she has been gone for 20 years or so now.
A woman died recently at the age of 104, a copper heiress whose name escapes me – her dad was born in 1840 and so her grandfather could have been born in the 18th century.
A person who met someone born in 1800 probably died within the past decade.
I think the record (and this is fairly recent) for oldest father is 90+ so some kid alive today will probably someday be able to amaze their friends with dates of his ancestors.